PULSE is a

P2PTV P2PTV refers to peer-to-peer (P2P) software applications designed to redistribute video streams in real time on a P2P network; the distributed video streams are typically TV channels from all over the world but may also come from other sources. T ...

application developed by the European FP7 NAPA-WINE (Network-Aware P2P-TV Application over Wise Networks) research consortium. PULSE stands for ''Peer-to-Peer Unstructured Live Streaming Experiment'' and is a

peer-to-peer Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the network. They are said to form a peer-to-peer n ...

live streaming system designed to operate in scenarios where the

bandwidth Bandwidth commonly refers to: * Bandwidth (signal processing) or ''analog bandwidth'', ''frequency bandwidth'', or ''radio bandwidth'', a measure of the width of a frequency range * Bandwidth (computing), the rate of data transfer, bit rate or thr ...

resources of nodes can be highly heterogeneous and variable over time, as is the case for the

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History

The principles and basic algorithms of PULSE were proposed by Fabio Pianese. The prototype was developed by Diego Perino and released with a

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Software License. The development has been taken over by the NAPA-WINE consortium in 2008, and version 0.2.2 can be downloaded via anonymous svn from the NAPA-WINE website.

P2PMyLive

In 2009, PULSE introduced P2PMyLive, P2PMyLive web site
where content providers can announce their streaming. Either the source or the participant can use the same graphical front-end to the pulse engine, which is available for Windows and Linux Ubuntu. Live streaming can be performed without any restriction.

References

{{Reflist Streaming television Distributed algorithms Peercasting Peer-to-peer software

History

P2PMyLive

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